The Relevance Of Regions In A Globalized World

Author : Galia Press-Barnathan,Ruth Fine,Arie M. Kacowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351371377

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The Relevance of Regions in a Globalized World by Galia Press-Barnathan,Ruth Fine,Arie M. Kacowicz Pdf

This volume provides a unique open inter-disciplinary dialogue across the Humanities and Social Sciences to further our understanding of the phenomenon of regions and regionalism in a globalized world both at the theoretical and empirical levels. What comprises a region? What are the different regional dynamic processes that take place? What is the relationship between the regional and the global? What role does identity building play? Bringing together scholars from various disciplines within and across the Social Sciences and the Humanities to reflect on these questions, the book explores how regions are imagined, constructed, understood, and explained in different academic disciplines. Each chapter addresses these common questions and uses its own disciplinary lenses to answer them. In addition, the volume offers interesting reflections on the academic borders constructed in the study of regions, thus demonstrating the importance of obtaining insights from both social scientists and humanities scholars in order to better understand the relevance of regions in a complex and globalized world. An important work for scholars and postgraduate students in many fields, including political science, international relations, sociology, economics, geography, history and literature, as well as for those interested in regionalism and area studies.

Author : Sallie A. Marston,Paul L. Knox,Diana M. Liverman
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Geography
ISBN : 0131449753

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World Regions in Global Context by Sallie A. Marston,Paul L. Knox,Diana M. Liverman Pdf

This book ... provide[a] a body of knowledge about how natural, social, economic, political, and cultural phenomena come together to produce distinctive territories with distinctive landscapes and cultural attributes: that is, world regions. [It] emphasize[s] that although there is diversity among world regions, it is important for us to understand the increasing interdependencies that exist among and between regions in order to build any real understanding of the modern world.-Pref.

Author : H. S. Geyer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Globalization
ISBN : UCSD:31822035623040

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Global Regionalization by H. S. Geyer Pdf

Examines the political and economic changes that have reshaped the political geography of certain regions. This book deals with the concept of global bloc formation, examining the impacts that political-economic conditions and relationships in and between nations have on demographic and economic flows.

Author : Ludger Kühnhardt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845458386

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Region-building by Ludger Kühnhardt Pdf

After two centuries of nation-building, the world has entered an era of region-building in search of political stability, cultural cohesion, and socio-economic development. Nations involved in the regional structures and integration schemes that are emerging in most regions of the world are deepening their ambitions, with Europe’s integration experience often used as an experimental template or theoretical model. Volume I provides a political-analytical framework for recognizing the central role of the European Union not only as a conceptual model but also a normative engine in the global proliferation of regional integration. It also gives a comprehensive treatment of the focus, motives, and objectives of non-European integration efforts. Volume II offers a unique collection of documents that give the best available overview of the legal and political evolution of region-building based on official documents and stated objectives of the relevant regional groupings across all continents. Together, these volumes are important contributions for understanding the evolution of global affairs in an age when power shifts provide new challenges and opportunities for transatlantic partners and the world community.

Author : Sallie A. Marston,Paul L. Knox,Diana M. Liverman,Vincent J. Del Casino,Paul Robbins
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Geography
ISBN : 032182105X

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World Regions in Global Context by Sallie A. Marston,Paul L. Knox,Diana M. Liverman,Vincent J. Del Casino,Paul Robbins Pdf

World Regions in Global Context presents a strong global sensibility and an emphasis on current concerns, with models of interdependent development, spatial and social inequality, and questions of spatial justice. The authors maintain that regions are the outcomes of a set of twin forces of globalization and regionalization. Therefore, each regional chapter stresses the global systems of connection that drive unique regional processes, making regions different. By studying regions, students not only learn the critical elements of different places, but also come to understand the fundamental processes that drive change. The Fifth Edition discusses geographies of emerging regions, incorporates cutting-edge data visualizations and infographics, including Quick Response codes linking to online media, features a completely modernized cartography program, and much more.

Author : Robert Huggins,Hiro Izushi,Daniel Prokop,Piers Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135128982

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The Global Competitiveness of Regions by Robert Huggins,Hiro Izushi,Daniel Prokop,Piers Thompson Pdf

The aim of this book is to consider theoretically the notion of the global competitiveness of regions, as well as giving attention as to how such competitiveness may be empirically measured. With this in mind, the book has three specific objectives: first, to place the concept of regional competitiveness within the context of regional economic development theory; second, to present a rationale and method for quantifying the global competitiveness of regions; and, third, to undertake the most geographically widespread analysis of regional competitiveness differences across the globe. With regard to the third goal, the analysis incorporates more than 500 regions across Europe, North and South America, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and the so-called BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The importance of the concept of competitiveness has increased rapidly in recent years, with the issues surrounding it becoming, at the same time, more empirically refined and theoretically complex. The focus on regions reflects the growing consensus that they are the primary spatial units that compete to attract investment, and it is at the regional level that knowledge is circulated and transferred, resulting in agglomerations, or clusters, of industrial and service sector enterprises. This growing acknowledgement of the region’s role as a key spatial unit of organisation has led to attention turning to competitiveness at a more regional level. The book explores the results of the World Competitiveness Index of Regions (WCIR), covering the rankings and results of the 2014 edition. The WCIR provides a tool for analysing the development of a range of regional economies across the globe. It enables an illustration of the changing patterns of regional competitiveness on the international stage to be generated. In fundamental terms, the WCIR aims to produce an integrated and overall benchmark of the knowledge capacity, capability, and sustainability of each region, and the extent to which this knowledge is translated into economic value and transferred into the wealth of the citizens of each region.

Author : Harald Baldersheim,Are Vegard Haug,Morten Øgård
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1409425835

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The Rise of the Networking Region by Harald Baldersheim,Are Vegard Haug,Morten Øgård Pdf

Covering the four Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden plus the Faroe Islands, this volume charts the changes in networking activities and related development initiatives that have taken place over the last ten years.

Author : Paul L. Knox,Michael Imort,Sallie A. Marston,Alan Eric Nash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Human geography
ISBN : 0321747291

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Human Geography by Paul L. Knox,Michael Imort,Sallie A. Marston,Alan Eric Nash Pdf

Author : Dirk Fornahl,Nils Grashof
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839102486

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The Globalization of Regional Clusters by Dirk Fornahl,Nils Grashof Pdf

Addressing the role of regional clusters in the context of ongoing globalization, this timely book investigates the two seemingly competing trends of globalization and localization from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. International case studies offer pioneering insights into the internationalization process of regional clusters and the effect of this on regional as well as firm performance.

Author : Peter J. Katzenstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501700385

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A World of Regions by Peter J. Katzenstein Pdf

Observing the dramatic shift in world politics since the end of the Cold War, Peter J. Katzenstein argues that regions have become critical to contemporary world politics. This view is in stark contrast to those who focus on the purportedly stubborn persistence of the nation-state or the inevitable march of globalization. In detailed studies of technology and foreign investment, domestic and international security, and cultural diplomacy and popular culture, Katzenstein examines the changing regional dynamics of Europe and Asia, which are linked to the United States through Germany and Japan. Regions, Katzenstein contends, are interacting closely with an American imperium that combines territorial and non-territorial powers. Katzenstein argues that globalization and internationalization create open or porous regions. Regions may provide solutions to the contradictions between states and markets, security and insecurity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism. Embedded in the American imperium, regions are now central to world politics.

Author : Paul J. Kohlenberg,Nadine Godehardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000168648

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The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics by Paul J. Kohlenberg,Nadine Godehardt Pdf

This book examines what counts regarding the role and conceptualization of regions in world politics. It presents a fresh look at which narratives awake, persist, fall dormant or re-emerge amidst diverse interlocking processes of environmental, technological and global political changes. It puts forward a thorough and multidimensional conceptualization of regions as embedded in changing, overlapping environments, and requires more attention to regions’ shifting materiality, temporality and technological underpinnings. Combing the approaches, questions and analyses of Critical IR and Political Geography, it calls for a renewed emphasis on the puzzle of how the contextual environment of regions may become more (or less) multidimensional, or how some aspects of a region’s contextual environment may be mutually constitutive in non-intuitive ways. Ultimately, it sheds light on the politics of regions and the regional scale in international politics in order to overcome the often-underlying territorial fixity of territory and space within IR approaches. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of international relations, international political sociology, political geography, regionalism, geopolitics and area studies.

Author : Louise L'Estrange Fawcett,Andrew Hurrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015031877825

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Regionalism in World Politics by Louise L'Estrange Fawcett,Andrew Hurrell Pdf

This book brings together the many different institutions and ideas to be found under the label of 'regionalism'; it places the revival of regionalism in a broader historical perspective; it asks whether there are common factors behind the revival of regionalism in so many different parts of the world; and it analyzes the cumulative impact of different brands of regionalism on international order. Leading specialists examine recent developments in regional cooperation in different parts of the world. They take a critical look at recent trends towards the new regionalism and regionalization, assessing their origins, their present and future prospects, and their place in the evolving international order. As well as concentrating on specific regions, including Pacific-Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, the book looks at theories of regionalism, the balance between regionalization and globalization in the world economy, the relation between regional organizations and the United Nations, and the relationship between the revival of regionalism and questions of identity and nationalism.

Author : Shaun Breslin,Christopher W. Hughes,Nicola Phillips,Ben Rosamond
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 041527768X

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New Regionalisms in the Global Political Economy by Shaun Breslin,Christopher W. Hughes,Nicola Phillips,Ben Rosamond Pdf

Following the financial crisis in large parts of the world at the end of the 20th century, regionalisms in the global political economy have evolved in a number of interesting ways. This book seeks to bring together the leading scholars in the field to provide cutting-edge analyses of contemporary regions and regionalist projects. "New Regionalisms in the Global Economy" provides an integration of theoretical considerations with detailed analyses of a wide range of case studies from across the world - from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the South Pacific. The chapters systematically consider the relationship between globalization, financial crisis, and regional projects. In combination, the contributions to this volume facilitate the widest possible base within the literature for a truly comparative study of contemporary regionalism.

Author : Allen John Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199252300

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Global City-regions by Allen John Scott Pdf

There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations greater than one million. These city-regions are expanding vigorously, and they present many new and deep challenges to researchers and policy-makers in both the more developed and less developed parts of the world. The processes of global economic integration and accelerated urban growth make traditional planning and policy strategies in these regions increasingly inadequate, while more effective approaches remain largely in various stages of hypothesis and experimentation. Global City-Regions represents a multifaceted effort to deal with the many different issues raised by these developments. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them; it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization; and it offers a number of policyinsights into the severe social problems that confront global city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world. At a moment when globalization is increasingly subject to critical scrutiny in many different quarters, this book provides a timely overview of its effects on urban and regional development, one of its most important (but perhaps least understood) corollaries. The book also offes a series of nuanced visions of alternative possible futures.

Author : John H. Dunning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1132008633

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Regions, Globalization, and the Knowledge-based Economy by John H. Dunning Pdf